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The Anatomy of a Merger Process in the Greater Oslo Region
2016
This chapter provides an analysis of the merger of the two Norwegian university colleges of Oslo and Akershus, which led to the establishment of the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in 2011. It is designed as a contribution to the understanding of mergers – as we are learning from experience. The data collected is based on document analysis and semi-structured interviews (conducted during the spring of 2014) with key internal and external people involved with the merger process. Three aspects are analysed in detail: (a) the background to and motivation behind the merger; (b) the relationship between actors belonging to the two organisations; and (c) communication pro…
The Many Guises of Nordic Higher Education Mergers
2016
In this final chapter, the volume’s editors reflect upon the empirical and theoretical contributions from the book. The chapter is structured according to a number of ‘dimensions’ which have appeared in the previous chapters. It is concluded that the historical contexts and path dependencies play crucial roles also in the case of mergers. Furthermore, the importance of key actors is highlighted, not least the role played by formal top leaders, but also informal brokers and change agents at the institutional level. In terms of future research, two lines of inquiry are identified. The first is to delve deeper into process-related issues, which is still an unexplored aspect of mergers, and the…